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I’m excited to announce that Plum Analytics is being acquired by Elsevier. You can read more about it through the official press release or my article on Elsevier Connect. Both EBSCO and Elsevier, and of course those of us at Plum Analytics, Read More

Research Reveals PlumX from Plum Analytics is Not Just Altmetrics Recently, Plum Analytics President Andrea Michalek spent time with author J. Michael Lindsay, MSIS, AHIP, Associate Professor, Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, Graduate Preston Medical Library, The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. Read More

Both researchers and academic publishers in developing countries face an uphill battle when they seek to make an impact in their fields on the global stage. Researchers need both access to academic content to stay abreast of research developments, and a forum to publish results of their research that might get the attention the research deserves. Read More

Finding references to research in policy documents is important because there are new demands on researchers and those who support them to demonstrate public engagement with their research, its impact on government policy and cultural life, and societal impact in general. Read More

At Plum Analytics, we’ve been working hard to incorporate policy document citations into PlumX. The term “policy documents” can be a nebulous way of describing documents resulting from the research of non-profits, governmental organizations and think-tanks. They can take the form of white papers, Read More

This is the second part of a two-part blog post about PlumX and Wikipedia mentions. In the first, we explored the meaning and possible interpretations of Wikipedia mentions of scholarly output, both on an individual piece of research and when we aggregated them.Read More